Senior Privacy Officer

Multiple Locations: Morrisville, NC, USA • United States

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Requisition Number: 4935

Position Title: Senior Privacy Officer

External Description:

SUMMARY: The Senior Privacy Officer is responsible for supporting Worldwide’s Data Privacy Program and serves as a subject matter expert in data privacy/data protection as applied to GxP processing activities and co-regulatory frameworks. The Senior Privacy Officer reports to the Director, Global Data Privacy.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Support key initiatives, such as global Data Privacy/GxP coregulatory intelligence database and international data transfer compliance projects.
• Support Director, Global Data Privacy in conducting privacy training for GxP functional areas on best privacy practices and regulatory obligations under coregulatory privacy and GxP frameworks governing clinical trials (e.g. ICH-GCP, GDPR, etc.).
• Contribute to the development of corporate process documents and templates, including privacy policies, standard operating procedures, contract templates, privacy/transparency notices and patient informed consent documents, etc.
• Review and negotiate sponsor and GxP vendor data processing agreements, including international transfer agreements (e.g., SCCs) and provide data privacy subject matter expert (SME) advice to legal and contracts management teams for GxP services agreements.
• Assist Director, Global Data Privacy in mitigating/eliminating key legal and regulatory privacy exposure globally, managing set projects, working with relevant business and support units.
• Analyze cross-department privacy issues and act as data privacy SME to business and support units as required, particularly on GxP, new services and systems.
• Support the development of remote monitoring strategies, including the development of remote monitoring plans and risk assessments of available technologies, process and technical controls.
• Provide expert advice to Privacy Manager in the context of incident response (including communications/notifications to sponsors, supervisory authorities, data subjects and other third parties as appropriate) and support the development and maintenance of the Record of Processing Activities and GxP vendor assessments.
• Support Sponsor/Sponsor DPO diligence requests and privacy impact assessments.
• Serve as local liaison for corporate group DPO and support corporate initiatives, including privacy impact assessments and privacy diligence for key acquisitions and other transactions.
Global privacy network/continuing education responsibilities:
• Collaborate to build internal communities of employees with privacy responsibilities to improve organizational capabilities in privacy management and share privacy innovations, knowledge, and practices.
• Develop and maintain a sufficient understanding of the processing operations carried out, the information systems and data security of systems used at Worldwide.
• Build external global network privacy professionals, attend professional conferences, etc. to stay abreast of trends, best practices and industry benchmarks to leverage towards continuous process improvements of Worldwide’s data privacy program.
• Develop and maintain expertise in applicable data privacy/protection laws and practices including the GDPR, as well GxP as regulations, including obtaining and maintaining appropriate certifications, trainings, continuing legal and privacy education and attending data protection and privacy conferences.
• Monitor and inform colleagues of proposed or actual changes in laws that may impact Worldwide.

OTHER KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
• High degree of personal and professional integrity and professional ethics.
• Ability to work independently and as a team to build consensus across multiple tiers of leadership and diverse functional areas of Worldwide.
• Strong communication skills, including written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, ability to build working relationships, and to communicate with key stakeholders, clients, data subjects and regulators.
• Extensive experience with international business and diverse business cultures.
• Integrity, initiative, organization, perseverance, discretion, ability to assert themselves in difficult circumstances.
• A passion for data privacy.
• Flexible, adaptable and able to work under pressure.
• Ability to comfortably and effectively interface with clients, vendors, (academic) investigative sites and regulators.

REQUIREMENTS:
• 5 years’ experience in data privacy and 3 years’ experience in a Contract Research Organization (CRO) or clinical conduct division of pharmaceutical/biotech company.
• Experience advising on privacy and data protection legal, compliance and operational matters in the clinical research space, including but not limited to data processing agreements, clinical trial agreements, patient informed consents, and privacy notices.
• Certified Information Privacy Professional certification(s) (e.g. CIPP-E, CIPP-US, CIPM).
• Advanced knowledge of global data protection and privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to GDPR
• Advanced knowledge of GxP and other legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks governing multinational clinical research and understanding of the end-to-end clinical drug development process.
• General understanding of legal, regulatory and corporate governance frameworks governing multinational corporations.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Juris Doctorate/law degree a plus
• Fluency in English language. Fluency in a second/additional language(s) a plus.
• An understanding of conflicts of interests and ability to perform the functions of the role without creating conflicts of interest.
• Proficiency in all MS-Office applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio and Power Point.

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Employment Type: Regular

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Company Profile:

We’re a global, mid-size CRO that pushes boundaries, innovates and invents — because the path to a cure for the world’s most persist diseases is not paved by those who play it safe, but by those who take pioneering, creative approaches, and implement them with quality and excellence. We are experts, bright thinkers, dreamers and doers and, together, we are changing the way the world experiences CROs, in the best possible way.

Location_formattedLocationLong: Morrisville, North Carolina US

CountryEEOText_Description: Worldwide is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to enabling professionals from all backgrounds and experiences to succeed and, to that end, we prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and creativity. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, military status, or other class protected by applicable law. Worldwide is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where people thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do their best work every day.

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